Although the action's all there and the colour is very well done, the game is not the hottest around because of the initial levels of difficulty involved, but it should still provide excitement for the shoot up monsters out there and the odd several thousand Defenders fans.

Amiga gamesplayers have a lot more time to take out the bad guys thanks to a slightly larger play area accompanied by smooth parallax scrolling. This doesn't make up for the fact that the ideas behind Defenders are VERY firmly 8-bit ones.

Although individual characters and areas are monochrome, different colours are used for them so there's a reasonable spread of colour - but no scrolling. There's little detail in the characters and less still in some background features. Though there are few of them, sounds are effective and music's good (if wibbly wobbly).